Jacob Higman signs a petition to get legislation on the ballot in 2014 to legalize cannabis for medicinal and industrial use Saturday outside of the northside branch library.

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The local efforts to gather signatures to place an initiative on the ballot to legalize marijuana in Ohio got moving Saturday.

Daniel Helsel, 28, has started Freedom Fighters, initially called Chillicothe for Cannabis, to be the local organizer to collect signatures on behalf of Ohio Rights Group. In May, the nonpartisan group received approval to move forward with collecting signatures to place an amendment on the ballot to legalize marijuana for medicinal and industrial use.

In order for the "Cannabis Rights Amendment" to be placed on the ballot, sponsors need to collect 385,253 ...